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Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty.
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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike,…
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Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
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We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn; whereas , if we take it all together,…
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Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our…
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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would…
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I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now…
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He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke…
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To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we…
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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If thou thinkest twice before thou speakest once, thou wilt speak twice the better for it.
— William Penn
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It seems that wherever the Welfare State is involved, the moral precept, "Thou shalt not steal," becomes altered to say: "Thou shalt…
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O Lord, Thou knowest that which is best for us; let this or that be done, as Thou shalt please. Give what…
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And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery:…
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O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in…
— William Shakespeare
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As thou thinkest, so art thou.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
— John Selden
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Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and…
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The heart is nothing but what it thinkest is something!
— D Brown
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